(revised 06/26/2007)

The Clay Minerals Society's newsletter, CMS News, was published from 1989-2003. In 2004 the society discontinued publication of CMS News in favor of joining the new multi-society magazine. The first issue of Elements was published in January 2005.

Elements is an international magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology, published jointly by the Clay Minerals Society, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, the Geochemical Society, the European Association for Geochemistry, the International Association of GeoChemistry, the Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, and the Mineralogical Society of America.

Every issue explores a theme of broad and current interest in the mineral and geochemical sciences. Elements also presents regular features like a calendar of events, short course announcements, highlights of groundbreaking papers, awards, conference reports, policy news, as well as news of the Societies.

Elements publishes peer-reviewed invited papers for its thematic collection of papers. Themes of interest can be proposed to the editors and the members of the Advisory Board who will review every proposal submitted.

Members of the participating societies receive a subscription to Elements as a benefit of membership. Institutional subscribers to Clays and Clay Minerals¨, American Mineralogist, The Canadian Mineralogist, Mineralogical Magazine and Clay Minerals also receive Elements as a benefit of subscription.

Members who have a news item they'd like to include in Elements should contact the Society's News Editor, Stephen Hillier.

Our most sincere gratitude goes to Jo Eberl, the CMS News editor from 1989-2000, and Jessica Elzea Kogel, who edited the newsletter until 2004.

Available back issues of CMS News can be obtained for $3 each or the cost of postage. For more information, contact the Society Office.